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Which names

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Sunshine6195102 · 27/03/2025 19:27

We don’t know yet what we are having but please could you let me know your favourite options from the below for a girl and boy. Thank you!

Phoebe
Matilda
Clara
Cora
Olivia
Lila
Theodora

Toby
Henry
Arthur
Louis
George
Wilbur

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Mudkipper · 29/03/2025 19:38

Phoebe love
Matilda love
Clara love
Cora no
Olivia no
Lila maybe
Theodora maybe

Toby love
Henry love
Arthur no
Louis maybe
George no
Wilbur awful

mathanxiety · 29/03/2025 19:32

My favourites are
Matilda
Lila
Theodora

Henry
Louis

I really dislike Cora and Wilbur.

Mamofboys5972 · 29/03/2025 19:30

Phoebe and Henry

Mamofboys5972 · 29/03/2025 19:29

Phoebe and Henry!

LilacPony · 29/03/2025 19:27

Cora & Lila
Louis

martinisforeveryone · 29/03/2025 19:25

I'd say all your choices are uncontroversial except for Theodora and Wilbur, which might seem 'cute' if you know a sweet child with that name now, but are Marmite names that won't age particularly well.

Similar girls' names you might want to think about would be Lydia, Rosalind or Thomasina, shortened to Tommi for every day, like the owner of Wahaca restaurants.

I'm struggling to suggest a name like Wilbur, but I do know a Wilson, which suits him, like when people use your surname as a given name and it becomes quite cool. Not for everyone though.

Yerto · 29/03/2025 10:25

Love Phoebe
Like Matilda, Cora, Lila
Clara, Olivia are fine names just not for me, and I don’t like Theodora at all sorry

Love Louis, George, Arthur
Like Henry
Toby I like but feel it needs a longer name
Wilbur not fussed on sorry

Phoebe & Louis would be my top picks.

Enko · 29/03/2025 09:35

Phoebe or Cora. Your boys names are not my style but from that list Wilbur

MrsH26 · 29/03/2025 09:34

Cora is my absolute favourite name!

cherrycherryblossom · 29/03/2025 01:32

Theodora and Louis are my favourites from your list.

thefirebird · 29/03/2025 01:25

Lila and Arthur

user1492757084 · 29/03/2025 00:11

My faves ..

Matilda
Phoebe
Lila

George
Henry
Louis

I like all of the boys' names enough to use them.

I like all of the girls' names but would not use Cora.

iseethembloom · 28/03/2025 23:17

Lila and Toby

TheFairyCaravan · 28/03/2025 23:10

Clara and George.

l love George, it was my great-grandad’s name, and wanted to use it somewhere in DS2’s name, but DH didn’t like it. 28yrs on I’m still bitter about it, DGS was almost called it, and I’m so sad he wasn’t, but I do love his name.

maw1681 · 28/03/2025 23:06

Phoebe or Clara
Henry or Arthur

GiddyCrab · 28/03/2025 22:42

Lilah
Toby.

JacketPotatoAvecFromage · 28/03/2025 22:17

Cora and Louis

Mumofgirls2017 · 28/03/2025 22:13

Matilda
Clara
Cora

Arthur
Henry
George

lovely lists, you can’t go too wrong!

AdaColeman · 28/03/2025 21:21

Clara and Toby are my favourites from your list.

Cora Lila and especially Wilber are my least favourite.

While you've chosen some nice names, several of them are hugely popular, such as Olivia Arthur and Louis, so if that matters to you, check out where the names come in the Top Twenty names lists.

Onlyvisiting · 28/03/2025 21:20

Clara would be fine, except judging by the sheer number of times I've seen it suggested on here I can only assume in abt 5 years it will be more common than olivia. (I had a family member choose it in early 2000's as a family name that wasn't common, that year Olivia became number 4 I think. They were trend setters 😅)

Calliopespa · 28/03/2025 21:19

One other caution with Cora is I’m sure at some point she’d get the “ Cor, look at that!” joke.

It is hard to find a name that doesn’t lend itself to some sort of joke, but somehow Cora just sounds to me like some bloke exclaiming “ Cor blimey…!”

Onlyvisiting · 28/03/2025 21:17

Matilda and Henry

Newtess · 28/03/2025 21:16

Clara and Louis

MostlyGhostly · 28/03/2025 21:13

Clara & George

Calliopespa · 28/03/2025 21:10

DramaAlpaca · 28/03/2025 21:08

No child should be landed with a name like Wilbur; it's comical and truly awful.

Apart from that, your list has some really nice names on it, nothing that would raise eyebrows. Theodora is a bit much and Lila is a bit nothingy, but the rest are perfectly nice names.

Apart from Wilbur...

I know a little Wilbur: he’s gorgeous and it’s really very cute on him.